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Title details for Bride of New France by Suzanne Desrochers - Available

Bride of New France

A Novel

by Suzanne Desrochers
Emma Bering
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“Bride of New France is the best piece of historical fiction I’ve read in a long time.”  –Telegraph-Journal (Saint John, New Brunswick)
 
Laure Beauséjour has grown up in a dormitory in Paris surrounded by prostitutes, the insane, and other forgotten women. Despite numerous hardships, she dreams of using her needlework skills to become a seamstress and one day marry a nobleman. But in 1669, Laure’s dreams are cruelly dashed when she is sent across the Atlantic to New France as a fille du roi. Powerful and haunting, Bride of New France is a remarkable tale of a French girl and her struggle to survive in a brutal time and place.

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    August 7, 2012

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      • ISBN: 9780449807040
      • File size: 312185 KB
      • Duration: 10:50:23

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      In 1669, Laure is living in a poorhouse and dreaming of an easier life. Her dream ends when she is unwillingly chosen as a FILLE DU ROI (daughter of the king) as part of Louis XIV's plan to send girls to New France to marry settlers and populate his colony. Laure's journey from Paris to an isolated cabin in the woods where she is married to a piggish husband mirrors that of many such girls. Listeners immediately appreciate Emma Bering's excellent French accent and pronunciation of names and places. Her reading is careful and expressive but often too slow, with pauses that seem to stretch. Although the fate of LES FILLES DU ROI was impeccably researched, Desrochers's novel lacks spark, and Bering's narration is unable to compensate. C.B.L. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine

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